Dear friends of People in Need,
We want to thank you for your continual support of our Christian families in the Middle East. We want to thank a new anonymous sponsor D. And thanks to those of you who have been praying and supporting our friends in Lebanon throughout the year 2022.
Thank you for your prayer for Fady, who got married to Grace in August this year. Calvin's family got a chance to visit Fady and Grace in Lebanon shortly after they got married in Syria. Calvin's family stayed with them for a week in their new home in Zahle. They got to meet the People in Need team, as well as to meet Sister Sarah and the other sisters who worked with many Syrian and Lebanese families in the Syriac Orthodox Church in Zahle.
With your generous support, we were able to do three food distributions and one monetary aid distribution. The most recent distribution in September helped Christian families buy school supplies (totaled US$400) for the new academic year. Fady and Sister Sarah is planning to do one more year-end distribution to help family survive the winter with subsidies for fuel.
As a new family, Fady and Grace wanted to share the joy and the message of Jesus in this Christmas Season. Fady has done Christmas toy drives in the past. The aim of this year's Christmas gift-giving is to deliver a nice toy (US$15) to a child in a family in Lebanon that otherwise could not afford one. A nice gift will provide healthy playtime with their siblings and friends that we believe will help reduce the consumption of digital entertainment that plagues so many children in our age. The Christmas toy gift will be accompanied by a visitation from Fady and Grace, and the sharing of the Good News of Jesus' incarnation during the Christmas season. Our dream is to be able to bless children with toys that they like, and in the meantime remind them and their family of the love of God who gave the greatest gift of all - Jesus Christ, in this Christmas season.
Hear Fady and Grace share their vision for this Christmas season:
To donate a Christmas gift, go tohttps://opencollective.com/people-in-need/projects/christmas-gifts-for-children
May God's blessing be with you and your family during this Christmas season.
With Love,
Calvin Ho
The People in Need Team